Through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places. –E. E. Cummings

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

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You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridgeAnd walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,Above landscapes the color of ripe goldTransformed by a magic stopping of the sun.That bridge leads to the shore of ReversalWhere everything is just the opposite and the word 'is'Unveils a meaning we hardly envisioned.Notice: I say we; there, every one, separately, Feels compassion for others entangled in the flesh And knows that if there is no other shore We will walk that aerial bridge all the same.–Czesław MiłoszRobert Hass translation